Richard MacManus has been trying to figure out aggregator market share based on stats from his own blog. It’s really interesting reading, and the comments are very good as well. He puts Bloglines at 50% of the aggregator market, although he implies (and I agree) that hard numbers are difficult to come by. Seperately, a lot can be gleaned from the live traffic stats that BoingBoing publishes. Kirk Scott ran the numbers, and he came up with the following.

I’ll be attending the BloggerCon conference this Saturday. I’ll also be at the dinner at Mings on Friday night, and the Aggregators dinner at the Fish Market on Saturday. It promises to be a full weekend. Bloglines is pleased to help support BloggerCon, and I’m looking forward to the conference. If you’re attending one of these events, please say hi. I always enjoy talking with Bloglines users, and I’m always looking for feedback and suggestions for how we can improve the service.

The idea of podcasting, while having been around for a couple of years, seems to have really taken off in the past few weeks. What’s really exciting for me is seeing people use the Bloglines Web Services API to create new and interesting podcasting clients. There’s Doppler Radio which has been out for a couple of days. And I just saw an announcement of the Bloglines Enclosure Download Script. We’ll be adding these to the Bloglines Web Services section of the web site.

Previously I had mentioned how we were having problems with Seagate drives. On the flip side, I’d like to point out two exceptional companies, HP and Sleepycat Software. In production, we use several HP Procurve switches. These are devices that connect the various machines in the Bloglines cluster. Like some other aspects of our cluster, we’ve bought several of these off eBay, which even several years after the bubble burst, is still a good source for cheap computer hardware.